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Aw hell nah
Blame this guy named tony for this ok😭
I’m not autistic but I definitely stand against autism speaks, and yes my blog is autism safe
Fun fact: I’m autistic I’m gonna do a thing inspired by another person
Reblog if your blog is safe for autistic people or is ran by an autistic person!
oh and
Reblog if you stand against Autism Speaks!
Les goo
Yes Janus is very attractive
I am reblogging this, because I know what it feels like to almost lose a friend to suicide
MAPs I’m going to kindly ask you to exit the LGBTQ+ community, for you are not welcomed here.
I agree with this. Mr. Emily is in fact, a dilf
Is Mr Emily a Dilf? Perhaps, but-
The Post Plus Protest is coming! Updated Edition
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Fill out the survey on the original Post Plus post (be polite, don’t spam, but GET YOUR POINT ACROSS that we don’t want this). Since we mean business, it’s time to hit them where it hurts; Ad Revenue.
We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as the main event of phase one.
WHEN IS THE PROTEST?
The protest starts by logging off on August 6th, 2021 at 12am Eastern Time (US). Here’s a quick chart to help figure out when you log out. AUGUST 6th, 2021 12 am Eastern Time (US) 4 am UTC 5 am BST/London 6 am Central Europe Time 7 am Moscow Standard Time 9:30 am Indian Standard Time 12 Noon Hong Kong Time/Australian Western Time 1 pm Japan Standard Time 1:30 pm Australian Central Time 2 pm Australian Eastern Time
AUGUST 5th, 2021
11 pm Central Time (US) 10 pm Mountain Time (US) 9 pm Pacific Time (US)
THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM THE START TIME!
So that means if you log off at say, 6 am Central Europe Time you’ll log back in at 6 am Central Europe Time on August 7th. We’d prefer if if there is no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs during this period.
WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
Like this post, share it, and use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 and/or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media. If you’re using the mobile version, you can always leave an honest review on the app center of your choice (once again: be polite, don’t spam, but GET YOUR POINT ACROSS!).
WHY IS POST PLUS/POST+ SO BAD?
Tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content (whether any of us want to admit it or not). Putting these kinds of contents behind patreon like paywalls is a terrible idea and the legality is NOT in the user or their subscribers favor. You can absolutely get in legal trouble for what tumblr is proposing with this new feature. There’s also the worry about the site’s (poor) security and access to Post Plus users bank information. Do you really want a site that lacks a functioning search function and whose userbase routinely get hacked to have your credit card information? No, you really don’t.
WILL THIS WORK?
Maybe, maybe not. It’s an attempt at doing something to combat tumblr’s impending self-inflicted demise.
ANYTHING ELSE?
There’s a time zone checker linked in a previous post if you need it and I’ll try to fix any mistakes to times as I find them. Keep an eye out for future posts closer to the protest date and the eventual phase two! Thank you ALL for your support so far.
Tumblr Post+ Isn’t Your Friend
Tumblr is beta-testing its proposed content-monetisation scheme “Tumblr Post+” and people are not happy. For good reason. Let’s talk about some of the problems:
Financial Security Measures
Getting this one out of the way early: Tumblr having our banking and credit card details does not fill me with confidence.
As this post pointed out, this is a website that has seen ray ban sales bot hacks, hacks that have taken over and locked people out of their accounts, a rampant - and still ongoing - porn-bot epidemic and all kinds of other basic security problems.
The probability that your card details would be, or stay, adequately financially protected by Tumblr is laughably small. Even if payments and financial data are managed through a third party, the blogs associated with that information are notoriously not secure. And given how poorly Tumblr support has historically responded to users affected by account problems, the likelihood of people being properly assisted with or compensated for lost or compromised financial data would have to be somewhere close to zero.
But even if Tumblr somehow managed to pull out a perfectly secure, ironclad financial security system, there are much bigger problems in how Post+ is being pitched.
Post+ vs How Tumblr Functions
Post+ seemingly fails to understand or be compatible with the way Tumblr functions. Unlike Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and TikTok - which are mostly driven by following specific users/ channels - Tumblr is driven by the reblog and the function of post-sharing. Most content on the site isn’t directly reblogged from the original poster but instead gains traction by being shared by other users with large enough follower counts to propagate it outwards. And those users may only reblog a few posts from any given creator.
What happens, then, if the followers of those larger content-aggregating blogs aren’t (or can’t afford to be) subscribed to every Post+ user on the site? Likely that the Post+ posts are left dead in the water, the lack of visibility leading them to not be shared beyond the blogs of subscribers.
It is baffling that the Post+ designers missed this.
Transformative Works and Monetisation: The Tightrope
Tumblr has been increasingly marketing itself with the byname “the Home of Fandom”, and the majority of its userbase consists of fan communities based around copyrighted intellectual properties. This puts Post+ in a dangerous position because fanworks, by nature, have to operate in a very small grey area that explicitly excludes direct monetisation.
Though the inability to be paid has drawn the ire of some fan-creators, the truth is works that are transformative of an existing product gain a huge advantage in terms of audience and investment. A fancreator doesn’t need to invest the massive amount of resources and time needed to promote and build an audience that would be required for brand new works; the community comes pre-formed around the original property. And - while it has been horrifically exploited by megacorporations - this is the good-faith reason why copyright law exists: to protect original creators from having their time, money and effort stolen by larger, further-reaching parties without adequate compensation.
In general Fair Use gives protection to paid critique/ analysis, some journalism and parody. Transformative fanworks - fanfiction, fanart, fananimation, cosplay, unlicensed memorabilia etc - are historically far less likely to be afforded that protection, and a number of creators and large companies (Anne Rice, Disney, Nintendo etc.) are known to be very litigious. This is why the Organisation for Transformative Works (OTW, the people behind AO3) maintains a team of lawyers and disallows direct linking to payment platforms like Ko-Fi, Patreon etc. in the archive Terms of Service - to give DMCA takedown notices and lawsuits as little legitimate ground as possible.
Charitably, you might think that perhaps Post+ is intended purely as a way for users to monetise their original content… but let’s take a gander at the wording of that post again:
Post+ is being directly, explicitly, promoted as a way to monetise fan content. This is an embarrassing lack of understanding of the basic legality of fandom on Tumblr’s part.
Ideally this would indicate that Tumblr has a strategy in place to support or protect users who encounter legal challenges for using Post+ on fanworks - similar to OTW’s legal team. But given how Tumblr has historically been about supporting users and fixing issues, what we’re more likely to see is something akin to what happened with Youtube and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act; the platform shifting most of the burden of compliance to individual users in order to profit while mitigating the risk to themselves, leaving users out in the cold. (Update: as of 21 July Tumblr’s Terms of Service have been changed to pass all associated responsibility and risks to Post+ users.)
At worst, this could see OTW add Tumblr to the list of banned weblinks if Post+ becomes widespread enough that they can no longer argue that it isn’t a fanwork monetisation service - something which would significantly damage the interconnectivity of fandom. Tumblr is one of the most publicly available and least insular of the long-form mixed-multimedia sites - the freedom of widespread reblogging and multi-fandom blogs allowing a level of inter-community crosspollination that isn’t as prevalent on private blogging sites, subreddits or discord servers. Imagine the loss of community engagement and traffic in both directions if AO3 was legally forced to disallow mentions or links to Tumblr on the archive; noting that its main competitor and other major fanwriting repository - Fanfiction.net - already doesn’t allow external links (and is showing symptoms of a Zombie site on the verge of going down) and that posts containing links to FFN frequently fail to show up in Tumblr’s search and tag functions.
Even if Tumblr were to implement a flagging system to prevent Post+ from being used for copyrighted material, the NSFW ban has already shown us how poor and inaccurate Tumbr’s automated flagging is, and we’ve seen how easily community-driven flagging can be abused by trolls and large corporations to harass other users and silence unfavourable discussions on sites like Youtube.
Creators vs Platform vs Audience
The relationship between for-profit platforms and creators is inherently hostile in all models where the creator isn’t paying a platform fee or otherwise making purchases from the platform. As they say: if you’re not paying, you’re the product.
That means there are two different sets of incentives at play. For creators, incentives pull towards community building and personal profitability. For platform owners they pull towards platform-wide profitability and advertising - something that gives individual users increasingly less power.
In a situation like this, Post+ has the potential to majorly shift the dynamic of community interactions should it become widely adopted.
If Post+ becomes the most effective way for Tumblr to make money, then incentives would likely pull Tumblr’s strategy towards making Post+ as widespread as possible in order to maximise profit. This could see the design of the site shift in ways that make it more passively hostile to non-paid, non-paying users. For example, the potential for implementation of something like verified users, or algorithms that prioritise free content produced by Post+ using bloggers or that link to Post+ paywalled posts. Should something like this occur it could change the power dynamic on the site; arbitrarily favouring and elevating certain voices while making it harder for free bloggers and new users to find traction and communities without buying in.
Not only that but it has the potential to further drive wedges between content creators and other community members. Already, fanwriters and fandom olds are lamenting the shift from more collaborative, conversation-driven community structures to the ‘like and keep scrolling’ consumerist social media culture encouraged by Instagram, Facebook and other platforms. Creators have already expressed strain and discomfort at audience members who act entitled to free content while not sharing or otherwise meaningfully interacting with that content. By delineating the “producers” from the “customers”, Post+ could shift relationships in a more transactional, impersonal direction, further eroding the sense of mutual community.
And Post+ doesn’t give refunds if a user intentionally misleads you about the content you’re paying to unlock.
On top of that, the Tumblr community in general is very anti-monetisation and at times openly hostile to even small and reasonable attempts to monetise purely original content. Not only is this, again, a fundamental misunderstanding of the userbase and community on Tumblr’s part, it also risks making good-faith early adopters of Post+ vulnerable to targeting.
In fact, Tumblr already threw one of its initial Post+ users under the bus:
Pay-to-Harass
It shouldn’t be a contentious statement to say that Tumblr has a massive and widespread problem with bullying and harassing behaviours, dog-piling and hate campaigns. In other parts of the internet “the blue hellsite” is all but synonymous with bad-faith bad-takes and witch-hunts.
In light of that, this discovery is particularly worrying:
When you consider the amount of time, energy and resources some people on this site already invest in making a hobby of systematically harassing other users - writing callout posts, falsifying evidence, sock-puppet-ing multiple accounts to get around blocks, stalking them across platforms, locating their real home addresses and contact details in order to dox them, file false police reports or send misinformation to their families/friends/employers - the idea that a few toxic users would willingly pay the equivalent of a Netflix subscription in order to become an inescapable presence in their target’s life is not at all unreasonable.
The idea that content creators could have no ability to directly moderate their Post+ follower communities is ridiculous to the point of farce. This would be ripe for abuse by antis and other cyberstalkers. You can already picture the ease with which someone might maintain one or more alt-accounts for the purpose of taking out Post+ subscriptions in order to become an unstoppable harasser after being blocked, leaving the user no choice but to deal with their toxicity until the support team got around to responding (if they did at all).
But unless Tumblr is going to change this, or implement a priority-response system to ensure harassment by Post+ subscribers is handled rapidly, what will be the solution for targeted users - other than dropping out of Post+ entirely to regain blocking privileges and protect themselves?
And considering that harassment campaigns disproportionately target People of Colour, Women, LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent and other already marginalised groups… Suffice to say it doesn’t fill me with enthusiasm.
What’s Going to Happen with the Hate Speech?
Much as we may not like to admit it, there are a not-insubstantial number of actively racist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-Semitic and other violently hateful exclusionist users and communities on the site. Despite the bans and purges, they’re still here.
So this is more a question for the Tumblr team: Are you going to let these groups use Post+ too? Will users be able to monetise posts spreading Hate Speech, Propaganda and Active Misinformation? And in those cases, are you still going to take a cut?
If Tumblr does, and they allow these people to finance their communities through the site, and they take a cut of that revenue, how legally liable could Tumblr be held for any harms caused?
And if they don’t, then how are they going to implement a content flagging/reporting system that won’t either catch in its net a large number of undeserving posts, or be easily abused by trolls and antis?
Models for Monetisation
As anti-monetisation as the community at large is, we should recognise the financial reality of running a platform. Servers cost money, domain names cost money, paying staff to maintain basic site functionality costs money. That money has to come from somewhere, and as a company Tumblr also has to make a certain amount of profit on top of covering operating costs.
Personally, I would be okay with Tumblr reaching out to a few more lucrative advertisers and running a small number of extra ads if that was what was needed. However this also represents a problem of Tumblr’s own making; through their own failure to moderate and prevent harassment, toxicity, hate-speech and inappropriate content they have ended up with a platform that many advertisers would be understandably reluctant to have associated with their brand.
So let’s say they have to turn to users. And before we do that, let’s talk about the weird contradiction in Tumblr’s actions and statements over the last few years.
The NSFW purge of a few years ago was outwardly stated as being at least partially aimed at making Tumblr more accommodating for younger users. But younger users don’t typically have access to bank cards - assuming they have independent bank accounts at all.
So then… who’s the target for Post+ in terms of the paying audience? The adults, who supposedly aren’t the primary userbase of Tumblr? Or the kids, who generally aren’t as able to pay?
And that’s not even considering that a lot of the most active, content-generating, content-consuming fandom users are high school students, college students and entry-level workers; people who generally don’t have a lot of disposable income to regularly splash around.
Tumblr really doesn’t seem to understand who its userbase is or what monetisation models would actually suit them.
For the sake of being productive instead of just complaining, here are some suggestions for other user-based monetisation models:
A coin and award system similar to Reddit, where users could purchase Tumblr-specific fun-bucks towards trophies that could be gifted to posts and reblogs that they found particularly good/ bad / funny/ stupid/ creative/ what-have-you.
Tradeable cosmetic decorations (e.g. stickers, stamps, creatures) that could be collected and displayed on user’s blogs. This could be run similar to a Trading Card Booster Pack - purchasing a selection of randomised collectibles that could then be gifted or traded to assemble sets or acquire rarer ones.
A Premium post-editor subscription that gave users more comprehensive text, layout and presentation options to create nicer-looking content.
A Premium Dashboard Subscription that allowed more control over font, font size, layout, palette etc.
A Subscription to premium engagement tools that could let users do things like track different reblog chains coming off their posts, sort activity history by user, post or post-type, actually mass-edit tags on multiple posts at once etc.
If Tumblr was really wedded to allowing creators to monetise, a blog-wide tip-jar system would prevent the reblog-blocking of paywalled posts and may give more plausible deniability and legal protection to fan-bloggers who mix in some fair use and original content.
The problem with most of these, of course, is that Tumblr would have to invest time, effort and resource into creating features that the community would actually want to pay for. And, historically, they’re not into that.
Ill-considered and Underprepared
Quick credit to the Folding Ideas videos on Vidme or Why Platforms Aren’t Your Friend, React World and Gaming the Youtube Algorithm, which informed a lot of the next two parts.
Even at a glance, Post+ seems wildly unprepared, ill-considered and poorly researched. Beyond just the failure to consider the legal hurdles of monetising a mostly fandom-focussed site and how Tumblr’s content-sharing model works, the Post+ survey’s questions about post types and schedules are incredibly vague, and seemingly don’t consider some major categories of content.
There’s no mention of studyblr, educational blogs, mental health blogs, character ask blogs, analytical/meta content, or many other common post types - except if you put it in as free-text under “other”. “Writing” is incredibly vague and could cover everything from writing advice to fanfic to fan-meta to original fiction, let along different genres within that. The same with “Textile art” or “makeup” or “videogames” or “comics”. It doesn’t actually say anything meaningful about the content.
This one’s also weird because, as far as I know, Tumblr users generally don’t go looking for creators - they look for content and then find creators through reblogs, mutuals or tags. As mentioned before, Tumblr is driven by shares, not follows. (Noting also that Tumblr’s search functions are notoriously poor).
Not only does this show a really poor understanding of the site’s content, it also raises a question. A major monetisation feature like this should be backed by market research and development. If Tumblr has done proper market research, then why are these questions so nonspecific? And if they haven’t, then why are they trying to crowdsource it from the community instead of doing so?
The truth is, Tumblr users have regularly voiced requests for (or complaints about) features - of which direct monetisation is not a major one. And monetisation options already exist, in the form of Patreon, Ko-Fi, Venmo and other services. All of which, by virtue of specifically being payment services, have better set out the relationship, responsibilities and protections between the users and the service than Post+ does.
What Tumblr users actually want are things like the ability to send asks from sideblogs, live-record audio and video posts, mute notifications from specific posts, disallow reblogs on their own posts and have more control over post visibility. For a long time, users have been calling for feature improvements such as a more effective blocking system, better moderation of harassment, and actually functional key-word and tag searches that let you find posts instead of having to google your own blog.
Users have been especially been calling for a proper crackdown on the egregious epidemic of spam bots and particularly the porn bots which have continued to operate despite the NSFW purge - the latest wave of which being so blatant that users clicking over to check whether a new follower is legitimate are being confronted by autoplaying GIFs of up-close, real-life penetrative sex acts.
(As a sidenote: placing users in a position where they are regularly non-consensually exposed to explicit pornographic content without being given tools to effectively avoid or prevent it falls under some legal definitions of sexual harassment. And given that Tumblr is knowingly refusing to either give individuals adequate tools to protect themselves or to implement an effective systemic solution to the problem despite widespread reporting and public complaints, it could be considered vicariously liable for the sexual harassment of its userbase.)
Given all of this, why is the paid feature Tumblr chose to propose a subscription-based monetisation tool?
What Post+ Suggests About Tumblr’s Intentions
Overall, the implementation and seeming design of Tumblr Post+ does not suggest good things about Tumblr’s intent with this “feature”.
The truth is, Tumblr and Reddit are two of the major open generators of fair use and uncopyrighted original content on the English-speaking internet. Screencaps and reposts of content from Tumblr make a lot of ad revenue for third-party websites (wimp.com, didyouknowfacts.com, boredpanda etc) and other social media platforms. And, although monetisation options already exist for Tumblr users, they’re also third party, with Tumblr seeing none of the revenue. But Tumblr doesn’t produce any of that value-generating content itself. It’s just the host platform for the creators who do.
This attempt to become “Diet Patreon” via Post+ suggests that the intent is less about “empowering your favourite fanauthors and fanartists” and far more about Tumblr wanting to get its fingers in the money pie.
Think about is this way. A Post+ making $3-5 dollars per view or at most a Netflix subscription per subscriber isn’t a lot of money for the post owners. It’s pocket change, a small side-hustle at best. And for individual users, the 10% cut taken by Tumblr (or 30% for App store subscribers) will likely be barely noticeable.
But from Tumblr’s side, multiply that 10% cut by a hundred, a few hundred, a thousand, a few thousand users… suddenly it’s not pocket change anymore.
“Find a million tiny sources of revenue and skim a miniscule amount off the top of each: it all adds up.” - Folding Ideas
Then consider the design of Post+ being proposed; the lack of support, the potential for abuse and harassment, the changes Tumblr has already made in its Terms of Service to shift the burden of legal risk onto Post+ users while encouraging them to monetise the kind of content that will incur that risk… the picture it paints is Not Good.
This is probably part of the same reason why the bot problem hasn’t gone away, and why the only time a solution was even attempted was when it got bad enough to effect the profitability of the App. It doesn’t matter how annoying and uncomfortable it is for genuine users; so long as stakeholders and advertisers are unaware of how many engagement metrics and ad impressions are coming from bots programmatically trawling the site for Search Engine Optimisation, the sale value of the platform and ad spaces will remain higher than its actual value. It’s all about the money.
And when you consider all the options Tumblr could have taken to fix or add features, crack down on bots and harassment, improve moderation and otherwise increase the genuine value and reputation of its content and userbase. Well…
The most generous interpretation of Post+ is that it’s a genuinely well-intentioned but horrifically ill-considered attempt to support creators; failing to understand the basic legality of fandom, how fan communities function or what its userbase wants.
And at worst, it’s rent-seeking. It’s an attempt to lure in users that it can grift off as revenue-generators by dangling promises of getting paid. To recoup value lost from the platform by its history of abominably poor management, poor moderation and slapdash band-aid solutions that have historically created or worsened far more problems than they fixed.
This change isn’t users paying Tumblr to become stronger stakeholders in how the site/app is run, or to benefit from a desired feature that makes the experience better. It’s Tumblr setting itself up to skim revenue from people paying other creators, while still treating both as products.
It’s a Bad Look.
[datestamped: 24 July 2021]
Reblog if you: have no intention of using Post+ to put your content behind a paywall, and have no intention to pay to unlock any content hidden by Post+ either
I wanna see something.
Cute!
Can you draw a tiny lizard dragon that secretly hoards pennies?
Asking for a friend, do you know any girls ( or nonbinary) (she prefer girls or ya know, she/they tho) that you know and live close by (East Texas) her type is tall(over 5'5), thicc, black, more masculine, a German shepherd or boxer type human ya know over protective nice to them but mean to everyone else and a little mean to her jokingly, kinky, NO homophobic parents!, LOYAL, understanding, patient, willing to try new things, honest, funny, makes her feel comfortable to be herself, oh and definitely older than her so 14-15, atlest somewhat enjoys what she like or is willing to give it a try,... just the usual. So if you do, DM ME! Thanks 😌
Pp
cute t-word things that make my heart go asdfgkjagah:
When the ler has long nails and sloowwllyy spider them up ur sides or back, teasing u until you can’t stop giggling
“Awww, is someone a little ticklish?”
When there’s two lers and ur the lee and one of them restrains you so the other one can w r e c k you without any fighting back
compliments!!!!
“You’re doing amazing, you look so cute like that~” “don’t cover your mouth, I want to see that beautiful smile!”
Forcing you to say that you enjoy it, or making it paaiinfullly obvious
“Stohohahahp!” “Awe really? But I thought you looveedd this~ you were practically begging for it, cutie.”
When the ler points out how blushy or flustered you are
Dropping the t-word into casual conversations just to watch you squirm
Light, playful t-words when you’re cuddled up on the couch. Tracing their nails and fingers along your side or back, just enough to make u giggle a lil but u feel so relaxed and loved
Having a hard day and coming home to someone who’s in a ler mood and will make you forget alllll about your stress!
Wearing crop tops or shorts and stretching in front of someone (not because i crave it or anything nope its just hot and im stretchin-)
When youre tired from laughing so you try to push away your lers arms as a reflex but you dont have the energy (and u dont want it to stop anyways) so youre just kinda,,, holding their hands while they destroy you
When you’ve been being a little shit and your ler gives you The Look
Cuddles, blankets, and a movie as aftercare <3
BEST SHIT IVE EVER READ
A Silly, Sweet Weapon
Sato starts experimenting with making dessert weapons that will handicap his opponents. His first attempt is successful and very, very silly.
Lers! Shoji, Tokoyami, Kaminari, Izuku
Lees! Bakugou, Sato, Sero, Ojiro
Length: 🍨 Ice Cream
A/N: Quick note: Keep an eye out for a very special announcement coming after Identity Theft gets posted! ^.^ Enjoy! _____________________________________________________________
Sato sat at the counter in the kitchen, propping his head upon his fist and frowning at his notebook. Groaning in frustration, he scribbled out the entire page.
“UGH!”
“You okay?” Toshinori asked as he walked into the kitchen.
Sato sighed. “Not really…”
“What’s up?”
“I’m trying to come up with a new special attack to use, but I’m stuck. I can’t think of anything. I mean sure, I’ve been able to extend my super strength time, but I want something else. I’m going to need something else.”
Toshinori frowned. “Hmmm. You’re right. But since you’ll be exhausted from using your quirk, that’s gonna be difficult,” he said.
“Yeah. I felt so helpless in training today. I couldn’t go on; all I could do was hide while the others kept fighting.”
“Well, they have their limits too.”
“Yeah, but I reach mine faster than they do.”
Yamada spun into the kitchen, dancing to a song he was playing on his phone. He stopped when he saw the pair watching him. “Oh, hey guys! Whatcha up to?” he asked. He leaned over the counter and frowned when he saw Sato’s scribbled out paper. “Homework gone wrong?” he asked.
“He’s trying to figure out a new special attack,” Toshinori explained.
Sato ripped out the scribbled page, crumpled it, and tossed it into the trashcan.
Yamada frowned and rubbed his chin in thought for a moment, then brightened. “Oh, I know! Use a weapon!”
“A weapon?” Sato asked. “Like Aizawa-Sensei?”
“Yeah! Lots of heroes have weapons they use to enhance their quirks, or just use them as extra defense!”
Toshinori smiled a little. “That’s a good idea in theory, but what kind of weapon would he use that is compatible with his quirk? And not noticeable to villains?”
Yamada grabbed the notebook and pencil and started sketching. “Alright Sato, so you know how you have that belt for your sugar packets?”
“Uh-huh.”
“All you have to do is add a few more capsules on the belt, and put desserts in there!”
“Desserts?” Toshinori asked.
Sato’s face lit up. “Oh! You mean like a cupcake that has a knockout chemical in it or something?”
“Exactly! That way you can handicap the villains enough to easily capture them without killing them!”
“You’re a genius, Yamada-Sensei!”
“Excuse you. Out of the three of us, I’m the genius,” Aizawa said, walking in with a cup of coffee.
“Aizawa-Sensei! Look! Look! I can have a new special attack now!”
The man looked over the rough sketch and offered a small, approving smile. “I think it’s worth a shot, kid. You’re welcome to use the kitchen here as long it doesn’t interfere with mealtimes, and as long as you’re not using any explosive chemicals.”
“Awesome! I’m gonna get started right now!”
The conversation had happened late that morning, and after whipping up a quick lunch for everyone, Sato had the kitchen to himself for the entire afternoon.
‘Hmmm…what kind of dessert should I make? It has to be something that’s eaten quickly. If it’s thick like a brownie or a cake, they’ll be able to spit it out. Marshmallows? Nah…too sticky. What’s something that melts in your mouth, and won’t stick to the ground if it’s dropped? Ah! That’s it! Meringue cookies!’ he thought.
Meringue cookies were simply small, piped meringues that you baked in the oven. Usually just called meringues, they were crunchy and soft at the same time. They’d melt in your mouth and were a very popular snack-like dessert.
Sato had everything ready to make the meringues and was flipping through a book he’d borrowed from Iida, trying to figure out what chemical he should use. Toshinori-Sensei had kindly escorted him back to the school and into the science lab to help him get approval to get some chemicals for his project. They were relatively safe and non-lethal of course, so getting them wasn’t a problem. He looked through the book to verify the effects of said chemicals and to try and figure out how much he’d have to put into his desserts.
‘Hmmm…I don’t want to use the knock-out chemical yet. I think I’d have to come up with a different dessert for that one. If I’m going to make meringues, I should use a chemical that has a light effect and isn’t super concentrated. So, what do I have that can do that? Oh, I know!’
Sato got to work, and a couple of hours later, he had two dozen meringues of varying colors. The green and blue ones had a larger amount of the chemical than the pink and white ones. He’d also set aside some regular white ones for everyone to enjoy later. He had just finished cleaning up and was about to pack up the special meringues when he heard what sounded like a stampede.
“Whoa! Where are you guys going?” Sato asked.
The group consisted of Shoji, Tokoyami, Kaminari, Izuku, Bakugou, Sero, and Ojiro.
“Ojiro’s going to teach us some martial arts!” Izuku said excitedly.
“Ooh, dude, what are these?” Sero asked, snatching one off the tray and popping it into his mouth. “Here guys, try one!” he said.
Sato’s eyes went wide. He almost said something but decided not to, so he could see the effect. It was harmless, so he didn’t feel bad about them not knowing. Shoji, Tokoyami, Kaminari and Izuku ate the blue and green ones, while Bakugou, Sero and Ojiro ate the pink and white ones. Sato leaned back against the counter and watched, eager to see how it would affect them.
Sero was the first to react. He giggled. “I don’t know about you guys, but I feel a little funny,” he said, a faint blush dusting his cheeks. He suddenly felt shy, and playful. He wrapped his arms around himself, unsure of how to deal with the sudden desire to be affectionate and give the person closest to him a bear hug. That happened to be Bakugou, so he resisted.
Bakugou fought a smile, also slightly blushing. “The h-hell did y-you put in these?” he asked, wondering why he was suddenly feeling on edge. He watched the others intently, examining their every move, waiting, and hoping that they’d do something so he could run. He bounced up and down slightly, his entire body screaming at him to run, move, do something.
Ojiro was grinning like an idiot and hiding behind Bakugou, watching the other boys with nervous excitement.
Shoji, Tokoyami, Kaminari, and Izuku all got a glazed look in their eyes and mischievous smirks on their faces.
Kaminari found himself feeling playful, like how he felt when he was racing around the track with one of his classmates. The shy smiles and faint blushes on his friends’ faces made his heart swell with affection, and he couldn’t help but want to make them smile a little bigger. And for some reason, his hands itched to move.
“You know, martial arts did sound fun,” Izuku said. “But before we do that, there’s something else I want to do.”
“W-what is it?” Ojiro asked, giggling nervously.
“It would seem that you already know,” Tokoyami said. “I’d recommend you start running.”
Sero and Ojiro took off, grinning widely as Kaminari, Tokoyami, and Izuku chased after them. Shoji raised an eyebrow at Bakugou.
“Y-you’re an idiot if you think that’s gonna scare m-me,” he said, trying to fight the nervous giggles that were bubbling up in his throat.
Shoji shrugged, raised his six hands, and wiggled his fingers at him.
Bakugou gasped and took a step back as Shoji slowly advanced towards him, Bakugou ran off, but he was quickly caught. Just as the taller boy was looming over him, Bakugou finally let out a childlike giggle and then dashed away before the other knew what had happened.
Sato stared at them in disbelief, highly amused. ‘Did I turn them into playful children or something?’ he wondered. ‘It makes sense, considering I used that new chemical they’re putting in laughing gas, but, wow,’ he thought. He followed them into the common room, and his jaw dropped at what he saw.
Shoji was straddling Bakugou and had pinned his arms above his lead, using his four available hands to tickle the spot between his upper ribs and armpits.
“GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DAHAHAHAHAHAHAMN IT!”
Shoji chuckled. “You really shouldn’t swear you know,” he said. “At least, not while I have you like this.”
Bakugou kicked his legs futilely as he cackled. “I CAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAN’T! EHEHEHEHEHE!”
Shoji let up on the tickles for a moment. “What do you mean?”
Bakugou panted, a goofy smile on his face. “I cahahan’t not swehehehear!” he said. “Nahahahat when you gohohoho thehehere!”
“Hmm, alright, I guess I’ll try another spot then. What about, here?” Shoji asked, using one pair of hands to tickle his stomach.
The blonde snorted and squirmed as much as he could in the other boy’s grip as he felt Shoji make his clawed hands go around in a circle, stop, then wiggle his fingers, doing so randomly. It kept him alternating between giggling and laughing with the changes of intensity. ‘Damn it!’Bakugou thought. ‘Since when did he get so creative? And since when did I get so damn sensitive? Agh! This is even worse than usual!’
Shoji chuckled evilly and then did something especially cruel, in Bakugou’s mind. He used his index finger from each of his six hands to poke and prod and his stomach, sides, and ribs. All the while saying, “Beep, boop,” like a robot.
“Nohohohohoho!” Bakugou whined.
“But the Bakugou system has malfunctioned! I must fix it! Beep, beep, boop!”
The blonde snorted through his giggles and blushed a strawberry red at the goofy teasing.
Sato grinned at the unusual sight of his angry classmate laughing, and his quiet, reserved friend in a playful mood. Another laugh reached his ears and he followed it to the hallway where he found Tokoyami tickling Sero, who was rolling around on the floor, instead of being pinned.
“Roll around all you like! You’ll never escape me or my tickles!” Tokoyami said, digging into his friends’ side with purpose.
“Ahahahahahahaha! Tokohohohohohoho! Ehehehehehehe!”
“Toko? Who is this Toko you speak of?”
“You knohohohohow!” Sero insisted, trying to bat his hands away, only to have one of his arms lifted and his armpit tickled into oblivion. “Nononono! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” the boy flailed and kicked, cackling madly, almost kicking Tokoyami in the face. This caused enough of a distraction to allow Sero to start scrambling away.
In the spirit of fun, Tokoyami smirked and let him run to the end of the hall. But at the last second, he summoned Dark Shadow. The creature zoomed after Sero and wrapped itself around him, quickly bringing him back over to Tokoyami and hanging him upside down.
Sero hiccupped and giggled, blushing as he tried to avoid eye contact.
Tokoyami met his eyes and smirked. “Sero, you wouldn’t be trying to run away from me, would you?” he asked.
Sero giggled and blushed even more.
“All I wanted to do was play, have some fun. And then you decide to almost kick me in the face and run away? That was terribly rude.”
“Sohohorry.”
“Are you? I’m not sure I believe you,” Tokoyami said, turning his back and folding his arms, pretending to be upset.
Sero cleared his throat. “Uh, I’ll make it up to you. I’ll do anything,” he said, his smile growing impossibly wider as his friend turned around, his eyes glinting with mischief.
Tokoyami nodded at Dark Shadow, who took his cue and started removing Sero’s shoes and socks. “Anything? Hmm. I think you’re going to regret saying that my friend,” he said.
Truth be told, Sero didn’t regret it at all. He knew exactly what he was doing, and his stream of nervous giggling quickly turned into roaring laughter as Dark Shadow tickled his feet and Tokoyami tickled his sides. He couldn’t wiggle very much because the entity had a secure, though not painful, hold on him.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Sero cackled and shook his head back and forth, feeling the smooth claws of Dark Shadow dance over his arches and the balls of his feet. He shrieked when he felt Tokoyami start to knead his sides. “NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” And to make matters worse, he was still upside down.
Not wanting to evoke Tokoyami’s playful wrath, Sato managed to sneak away and creep up the stairs where he found Kaminari and Izuku teaming up on Ojiro.
Izuku was squeezing his knees, while Kaminari tickled his armpits.
“GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! COHOHOHOHOHOME ON! WHY?”
Izuku giggled. “Why? We can’t help it! You’re just too cute not to!”
“I AHAHAHAHAM NOT! I’M A MAHAHAHAHAHAN! NAHAHAHAHAHAT CUTE!”
Kaminari snorted and yanked his hands free from under his arms, switching to tickling his neck, while Izuku decided to go for his stomach. Their sudden switch to different places and gentle tickles made Ojiro go back to his hiccup-like giggles.
“Ojiro, Ojiro, Ojiro. You should know better than to say that! You are cute, and you’re a man. You can be both at the same time! I mean, look at you! You’re so red, you’re giving tomatoes a run for their money. And if you could hear yourself giggling right now, I think you’d agree that it’s adorable. Right, Midoriya?”
“Right!”
Ojiro, extremely flustered, used his tail to try and fight off his tickly attackers. He ended up hitting Izuku’s arm with a light thump, startling the green-haired boy.
“Hey!”
Izuku and Kaminari stopped for a moment and exchanged a look, and they both grabbed his tail and tickled it into oblivion.
Ojiro threw his head back and let out his most hysterical laughter yet. Not ten, but twenty fingers danced up and down his tail, lighting up his nerves with tickly sensations. “NOHOHOHOHOHOHO! NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! MY TAHAHAHAHAIL!” He felt silly, and he’d been laughing so much that his brain was turning to mush. “REHEHEHEHEHED!” he cried. He felt a little too silly and was extremely relieved when the tickles stopped.
Sato sighed with relief too. ‘I’m glad they’re still considerate of the other person’s limits,’ he thought, watching them with a small smile as the two boys wrapped Ojiro in a gentle hug and rubbed his back as he tried to catch his breath. Once he did, he let out a big sigh.
“Wow. You guys are crazy,” he said, smiling at his two friends. “You were awful to attack my poor tail like that. It’s gonna want revenge at some point, but I’ll leave that for another day.” He glanced up. “Oh! Sato! Dude, those meringues of yours are nuts! Crazy good, but man! Ha! What did you put in them?”
“Well,” Sato said. “I was talking with the Senseis about a special move I could do after I’d exhausted my quirk, and Yamada-Sensei suggested a weapon instead. The meringues I made had different doses of a safe chemical they use in making laughing gas. You know, the stuff they give you when you’re at the dentist. I was gonna warn you guys, but at the same time I needed some test subject to see if it worked,” he said.
Ojiro raised his eyebrows. “Really? That’s interesting! Well, mine seems to have worn off.”
“Makes sense, you got one of the lower doses. Kaminari, Midoriya, how are you guys doing?” Sato asked as the two boys stood up.
They folded their arms and gave him the same mischievous look he’d seen earlier.
“I don’t know about you, Kaminari, but last I checked, I didn’t agree to be a test subject,” Izuku said.
“Yeah, me either,” Kaminari said.
Sato frowned. “Sorry guys! I was going to at first, but you ate them before I could say anything…and I don’t know how to reverse the effects so I figured I should just watch, at least for a little while. Sorry.”
Izuku scoffed. “Oh, you’ll be sorry alright.”
And that was all the hint that Sato needed. He took off down the stairs with his two classmates behind him, hot on his heels. Ojiro watched them go, and then got up and followed, semi-curious to see what would happen. ‘Man, I need a nap,’ he thought. ‘Maybe I’ll crash on the couch or something.’
Sato forgot that one should be careful when running down the stairs, and one shouldn’t run down the stairs at all unless they were in danger.
“We’re coming to get you!” Kaminari shouted gleefully.
He was in danger alright. Tickly danger.
Ojiro followed slowly, grinning at their silliness. He glanced around and noticed Sero, Tokoyami, and Dark Shadow playing chess together. And then he saw Shoji hugging a very smiley and slightly blushing Bakugou, who looked comfortable, (and very sweet) all wrapped up in his friend’s arms. But as soon as they heard the commotion they jumped away from each other and quickly started playing a video game instead.
Ojiro made it downstairs just in time to see Izuku and Kaminari tackle Sato to the ground and start wrestling with him. The three boys were strong, but a few minutes later the two boys pinned him down.
“Come on guys, I said I was sorry!” Sato said, a nervous smile slowly spreading across his face. His pleas fell on deaf ears.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Sato thrashed and bucked and kicked as he felt two sets of hands roughly tickle his torso and knead into his ribs.
“Maybe we should have you eat one of your giggle meringues!” Kaminari said.
Izuku giggled. “Hey! That’s a great name for them! What do you think, Sato?”
“He loves it! He’s absolutely tickled about it!”
The two couldn’t help but laugh and slow down their attack, eventually stopping completely.
Sato panted and sat up, smiling from the tickling and relief. “I think yours has worn off too,” he said. “And like I said earlier, I’m sorry for not saying anything.”
“Nah, no worries dude!” Sero called from across the room. “I had fun! You’re good!”
Everyone else confirmed that, except for Ojiro, who’d fallen asleep on the couch.
Sato was about to ask what they wanted to do since everyone seemed too tired to do martial arts. Before he could, he heard the front door unlock and open.
“Hey, my little listeners! Come help with the groceries!” Yamada said, followed by Aizawa, Toshinori, and the rest of the class.
Sato jumped up and went to help.
“I could hear you guys laughing from outside! What’s the joke?” Yamada asked. “Ooh, what are these?” He walked over and popped a white one into his mouth.
“Wait, wait, wait!” Sato cried. “Oh man…those are my special meringues filled with chemicals. Weapons, remember? Just like you suggested.”
Yamada grimaced. “Well, I’m glad you found something, but what was in that?”
“Nothing harmful, just a laughing gas type of chemical.”
Sero, who’d started helping unpack things, turned around and grinned, eagerly waiting to see which one his Sensei had eaten. “Yeah! They’re pretty dangerous, heh. You either become a tickle monster or a tickle target!”
Yamada chuckled, and for a moment Sato thought he’d been affected. But when the man patted his head, he knew he hadn’t. “What a silly weapon!” he said. “I like it! Silly, and sweet. Just like all of my little listeners!”
Sato smiled and started packing up his meringues, making sure to divide them and put big labels that said, regular, and giggles (do not eat). He was about to take them up to his room when he saw Uraraka eating a white one.
“Oh no! Uraraka! Man, I should have made the regular ones a different color!”
“What?” she asked. “What is it?”
He watched for a moment and then sighed in relief when it turned out that she’d eaten a normal one.
Or had she?
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An AU where Moceit are a divorced lawyer couple, and after 2 years (Patton's already remarried to a certain Crofter's loving Scientist) they end up having to work together to help a poor kid leave his abusive family.
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